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Estimate €80 - €150
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Adolf Frohner* (Großinzersdorf 1934 – 2007 Vienna) Franzl’s dream etching on paper, 39.8 x 33 cm signed Frohner, numbered 7/80 ESTIMATE €80 – €150 STARTING PRICE €80 Adolf Frohner was an Austrian artist. In 1952, Frohner, a self-taught painter, moved to Vienna and became a guest student of Herbert Boeckl at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. From 1955, Frohner worked as a commercial artist for the Association of the Electrical Industry, and from 1959 as an art critic. With Boeckl’s help, he was awarded a scholarship in 1961 that enabled him to study in Paris, where he became acquainted with the Nouveaux Réalistes and decided to work as a freelance artist. In 1962, he exhibited at the Galerie Junge Generation in Vienna. As a representative of object and action art, he was involved in the three-day ‘walled-in’ exhibition alongside Hermann Nitsch and Otto Muehl, as well as in the 1962 manifesto *Die Blutorgel* and the emergence of Viennese Actionism. After parting ways with the Viennese Actionists, he worked in Daniel Spoerri’s studio in Paris. He came to the attention of a wide international audience as Austria’s representative at the São Paulo Biennial in 1969. In 1970, he took part in the Venice Biennale. He later turned to panel painting and graphic art. A recurring motif in Frohner’s paintings is violence, often depicted through bound women who are subjected to violence. In 1972, Frohner was awarded the Austrian State Prize and began working as a professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. From 1985 to 2005, he taught a masterclass in painting. He was elected Dean in 1987, served as Vice-Rector from 1989 to 1991 and was Head of the Institute of Fine Arts from 1999 to 2005. Frohner was a member of the Masonic Lodge ‘Zur Bruderkette’ from 1978 and a founding member of the Voltaire Lodge ‘Zur weißen Kugel’ in 1997. Other artists and styles: Hermann Nitsch, Otto Mühl, Arnulf Rainer, Valie Export, Günter Brus, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Herbert Boeckl, Jean Dubuffet, Pierre Restany, Daniel Spoerri, Viennese Actionism, Blutorgel Manifesto, Einmauerungsaktion, Object Art, Tachism, Panel Painting, Female Figures, Loitzenhof Jauerling, University of Applied Arts Vienna, São Paulo Biennial, Venice Biennale, Wiener Secession PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price comprises the highest bid plus the buyer’s premium, sales tax and, where applicable, the artists’ resale rights fee and platform fee. In the case of standard taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13 per cent (20 per cent for photographs) is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer’s premium and the platform fee. The buyer’s premium amounts to 28 per cent in the case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
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Auction time 09/30/2026 at 10:00 AM
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